The hula hooping girls were originally in his first BAM comission, entitled BQE (https://vimeo.com/100146540). Their inclusion in this piece was pointless and clumsy, an ironically artless attempt to push the film away from the land of documentary and into the realm of art film. They existed both literally and figuratively outside of and away from the rodeo, but to no end -- no contrast or juxtaposition achieved. The scene in which they were explicitly eroticized -- laying down, half-lidded eyes, red lips parted -- was particularly out of place and sophmoric.

I liked the film a lot, but they had a lot of work still to do in the edit.